Can anyone recommend a decent scholarly video documentary on the history of archons in Gnostic texts?.
My searches on YouTube are turning up some almost comical b-movie type trash and I’m looking for something a bit more grown up and information dense.
Already watched the reality check interview with the secret space program whistleblower, not quite hitting the spot as a lot of the concepts are novel to me but it wasn’t too bad.
Thanks!
In my experience researching a topic through videos generally yields unsatisfactory results.
No movie but a book that delves into the subject not from a Gnostic perspective persé.
Invoking the Beyond.
The Gnostic revival of the Enlightenment witnessed the erection of what could be called the “Kantian Rift,” an epistemological barrier between external reality and the mind of the percipient. Arbitrarily proclaimed by German philosopher Immanuel Kant, this barrier rendered the world as a terra incognita. Suddenly, the world “out there” was deemed imperceptible and unknowable. In addition to the outer world, the cherished metaphysical certainties of antiquity—the soul, a transcendent order, and God—swiftly evaporated. The way was paved for a new set of modern mythmakers who would populate the world “out there” with their own surrogates for the Divine. Collectively, these surrogates could be referred to as the Beyond because they epistemologically and ontologically overwhelm humanity. In recent years, the Beyond has been invoked by theoreticians, literary figures, intelligence circles, and deep state operatives who share some variant of a technocratic vision for the world. In turn, these mythmakers have either directly or indirectly served elitist interests that have been working toward the establishment of a global government and the creation of a New Man. Their hegemony has been legitimized through the invocation of a wrathful earth goddess, a technological Singularity, a superweapon, and extraterrestrial “gods.” All of these are merely masks for the same counterfeit divinity… the Beyond.
Thick book well worth a read.
Interview with the Collins brothers.
Thank you, after a few days of rabbit hole exploration finding quite a lot of good stuff out there.
The wisdom of Sophia is a page within a page for sure!
I tend to agree, however in this case I think so much of the language is submerged that I need a jumping off point to get a framework for the concepts discussed.
A must read on this subject … "Not in His Image " … by John Lamb Lash